360-PlayLearn: Gamification and Game-Based Learning for Virtual Learning Environments on interactive television

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360-PlayLearnGamification and Game-Based
Learning for Virtual Learning Environments on
interactive television
Gerard Downes1, Paul Mc Kevitt1, Tom
Lunney1,John Farren2 Catherine
Ross2 1University of Ulster, Magee, The
Imagineering Quarter,Derry/Londonderry, Northern
Ireland.E-mail gdownes_at_gmail.com, p.mckevitt,
tf.lunney_at_ulster.ac.uk2360 Production Ltd.,
The Imagineering Quarter,Derry/Londonderry,
Northern Ireland.E-mail john.farren,
catherine.ross_at_360production.com
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Outline

• Background
• Aims Objectives
• Related work
• Design of 360-PlayLearn
• Relation to other work
• Conclusion Future Work
• Acknowledgements

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Background

• Digital Creativity Creative Technologies
• The Imagineering Quarter
• http//www.paulmckevitt.com/imagineering-quarter/
  
• Project Kelvin (MAM, e.g. HBO Game of Thrones)
• Digital Derry http//digitalderry.org/
• CultureTECH http//www.culturetech.com/
• Digital Action Team (DAT)
• University of Ulster 360 Production Ltd.
• City of Culture, 2013 http//www.cityofculture201
  3.com/

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Aims Objectives

• Online education on interactive TV
• Combining entertainment education content
  (edutainment)
• STEM, history, archaeology general knowledge
• Deployment on desktop, mobile TV devices

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Related work

• Online Learninge.g.  Udacity (Stanford), edX
  (MIT/Harvard),
• TED, Khan Academy, YouTube
• Gamification (Zichermann Linder, 2010)
• e.g. AmbiLearn (TreasureLearn) (Hyndman et
  al., 2012)
• Game-Based Learning (GBL)
• Virtual Learning Environments (VLEs)
  
• e.g. PlayPhysics (Munoz et al., 2012)

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Media Asset Management (MAM)

• Annotation, cataloguing, storage, retrieval
  distribution
• Digital photographs, animations, videos music
• TeleScope Enterprise (North Plains Systems, 2012)
  (Commercial)
• ResourceSpace (Dwiggins, 2011) (Open Source)

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The Cloud

• Hosting distributing of edutainment
  contentIf computers of the kind I have
  advocated become the computers ofthe future,
  then computing may someday be organizedas a
  public utility just as the telephone system is a
  public utilityThe computer utility could become
  the basis of a newand important
  industry.''--John McCarthy,  MIT Centennial
  Celebration, 1961 (AICS-1997)

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Architecture of 360-PlayLearn
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Gamification API
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360-MAM interface with ResourceSpace
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360-Cloud interface with Google App Engine
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Relation to other work

• Gamification Assessment for learning
• (e.g. AmbiLearn / TreasureLearn)
• GBL VLEs on interactive TV
• (e.g. PlayPhysics Emotional modelling, DBNs)
• 360-MAM 360-Cloud give advanced VLEs

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Conclusion

• 360-PlayLearn, 360-MAM 360-Cloud
• Constructivist approach (Vgotsky / Piaget /
  Papert)
• Problem-based / project-centred learning
• Widening access education for all
• Pervasive platform on interactive TV

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Future work

• Requirements analysis
• Implement 360-PlayLearn platform
• Acquire global media assets (Project Kelvin)
• Evaluation of 360-PlayLearn

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Acknowledgements

• DEL 360 Production Ltd.
• Ted Leath (Information Assurance Manager)

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Thank You

• Any questions or feedback ?

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